Watchlists let you save and organize the stocks you're interested in. You can create multiple lists (up to 10) with up to 100 stocks each.

Built-in watchlists

OptyTrades comes with several built-in watchlists available to all users:

• Indexes & ETFs — 25 popular ETFs including SPY, QQQ, IWM, DIA, all sector SPDRs (XLF, XLE, XLK, etc.), and thematic/commodity/bond ETFs like GLD, TLT, and ARKK.
• S&P 500 — All S&P 500 component stocks, pulled directly from the screener's data so they load instantly.

Curated wheel watchlists

Over a dozen curated lists are pre-loaded specifically for wheel traders, organized by price tier, strategy, and risk profile. Find them under Power Lists in the screener watchlist dropdown, or browse them at /watchlists.

Wheel Kings — by price tier

• Wheel Kings Under $25 — Capital-efficient names under $25. Run a cash-secured put for $1,000–$2,500 in collateral. Good for smaller accounts. Static list, reviewed monthly.
• Wheel Kings $25–$50 — The sweet spot for most retail wheelers — enough premium, enough quality, ~$2,500–$5,000 per CSP contract. Static list, reviewed monthly.
• Wheel Kings $50–$100 — Larger-cap names with strong fundamentals. For $25K+ accounts who want higher-quality underlyings. Static list, reviewed monthly.
• Mega-Cap Wheel Kings — $100B+ blue chips with deep weekly chains. Lower premium, but sleep-at-night quality. For $100K+ accounts. Static list, reviewed monthly.
• Dividend Wheel Kings — Dynamic list filtered live for dividend yield ≥2% and market cap ≥$10B. Stack option premium with dividend income.

Event-driven

• Fallen Angels — Profitable companies down 30%+ from their 52-week highs due to an event-driven selloff, not structural collapse. Elevated IV, fat premiums, real businesses with a recovery thesis. The sweet spot: you collect fear-priced premium at a strike that already prices in more downside.
• High Premium High Risk — The highest-IV names in the options market — AI, crypto-adjacent, growth tech, and two leveraged ETFs. No safety score floor. For experienced sellers who accept higher assignment risk in exchange for maximum premium. Size smaller than usual.
• High Premium, High Quality — The deliberate opposite of the list above, and the one to start with if assignment means you intend to keep the shares. Every name has to clear a Solid or Fortress safety tier, an Assignment Quality of 70+, a Quality Score of 70+, weekly options and open interest of 300+, with no earnings inside 21 days — and only then is it ranked on how rich the premium is against that stock's own history. Rebuilt daily. When market-wide volatility is low the premium thresholds step down a rung and the page says so; the safety and quality floors never move, so a short list is a real signal that it's a thin week rather than a reason to force a trade.

Quality & value

• Buffett Quality — 50 high-moat companies ranked by size, profitability, valuation, conviction, stability, and shareholder returns. The “sleep at night” list for conservative wheelers. Rebuilt monthly.
• CANSLIM Growth — 50 market leaders near 52-week highs with strong earnings, institutional participation, and uptrending charts. Higher IV and premium potential. Rebuilt monthly.
• Dividend 50 — 50 durable income stocks with meaningful, covered yields. Combines dividend income with option premium. Rebuilt monthly.
• Deep Value 50 — 50 Graham-style bargain stocks: cheap, profitable, not distressed. P/E between 5 and 18, within 35% of their 52-week high. For wheelers who want a margin of safety built in before selling the put. Rebuilt monthly.

Opty AI Watchlist

🤖 Opty AI Watchlist is a live, auto-updating list of every stock Opty is currently tracking: this week's Opty Picks, Opty Jr Picks, and all active AI Trader positions (monthly + weekly). It refreshes automatically as picks rotate each Monday and AI positions open or close. You can also pick it directly in the screener — it's Opty AI Watchlist under Power Lists in the scope dropdown beside the filter chips.

Each stock in the Opty AI Watchlist shows which list(s) it comes from via color-coded source pills, and which curated watchlists it also appears on — so you can see at a glance when an AI pick overlaps with a Buffett Quality or CANSLIM name.

Creating a watchlist

1. Click the gear icon next to the watchlist dropdown at the top of the screener.
2. In the “Manage Watchlists” modal, type a name for your new list and click Create.
3. You'll see your new list appear. You can now add stocks to it.

Adding stocks to a watchlist

There are three ways:

• One stock at a time: Click the star icon on any stock row. If you have multiple watchlists, a popover appears letting you check/uncheck which lists to add it to. If you only have one list, it toggles automatically.
• The whole filtered list at once: Filter the screener down to what you want, then click Add all to watchlist just above the table. It shows you which tickers are about to be saved, lists your existing watchlists (with a count of how many of the current results are already in each), and lets you name a new one instead. This is by far the fastest way to keep a screen you like — see How to filter trades for a recipe that pairs with it.
• From the manage modal: Open the gear icon, click a list to expand it, then type a ticker in the “Add ticker” input and press Enter. The symbol is validated before being added (fake tickers are rejected).

Watchlists hold up to 100 stocks. If a bulk add would go over that, it saves as many as fit and tells you how many it skipped rather than failing the whole batch.

Viewing a watchlist

Use the dropdown at the top of the screener (next to the gear icon) to switch between “All Stocks” and any of your watchlists. When viewing a watchlist, the table shows only stocks in that list — and they're fetched independently, so you'll see all your watchlist stocks even if they aren't in the main screener universe.

Filter memory

Each watchlist remembers its own filter settings. So if you set “Min Score: 70+” on your “Blue Chips” list and “Sector: Tech” on your “Tech Picks” list, those filters are restored automatically when you switch between lists. “All Stocks” has its own saved filters too.

Your active watchlist selection is also saved automatically. If you switch to your “Blue Chips” list and close the browser, it will be selected again next time you open the screener.

Removing stocks

Click the star icon again to remove a stock, or open the manage modal, expand the list, and click the × next to any ticker pill.

Your lists also live down the left of the Charts desk. Closed, the rail is a thin strip with an arrow; open, it becomes part of the chart grid — the charts give up the columns it takes, and you drag its right edge to set how wide it is.

• Every list is there — your own under My lists, and the curated OptyTrades lists under OptyTrades lists. Rows show Symbol, Description, Last, Net Chg and IV, and clicking one charts it in the selected chart.
• Add without leaving the page. Type a ticker in the rail’s header and press Enter or +. You do not have to chart the name first. A symbol already on the list says so rather than adding it twice.
• Remove with the × that appears on a row.
• Sort by any column. Click Symbol, Last, Net Chg or IV; click again to reverse, once more to return to your own order. The choice is remembered.
• Drag rows into the order you want. In your own order — not while a sort is applied — grab a row and move it. That order belongs to the list itself, so the screener shows it the same way, on any device.

New lists are still created on the screener; the rail is for using and tidying the ones you have.